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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

Seroprevalence of visceral leishmaniasis and its associated factors among asymptomatic pastoral community of Dire District, Borena zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

Haile Ketema, Fitsum Weldegebreal, Abdella Gemechu, Tesfaye Gobena

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Haile KetemaBorena Zone Health Department Office, Malaria and NTD, Yabelo, Ethiopia.
Fitsum WeldegebrealSchool of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia.
Abdella GemechuSchool of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia.
Tesfaye GobenaDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia.
Haramaya University · ETAmhara Regional Health Bureau · ET

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne protozoan neglected tropical disease. In some parts of Ethiopia, it is a public health problem and its main causative agent is

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Family CharacteristicsEthiopiaSeroepidemiologic Studiesassociated factorsDire DistrictEthiopiaLeishmania donovaniseroprevalencevisceral leishmaniasis

Identifiers

PMID36478712
PMCPMC9720128
OpenAlexW4309737891

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